2 days ago I started noticing this problem, where the API will return really random stats for a channel. This has been screwing with my site, and it’s becoming a pain in the ass… http://i.imgur.com X6MbaD4.png (put a slash before the X, I can’t put image links) Here is an example. The image is …

Please share what api call you’re making to help debug this further.

Same issue for me: Inaccurate followers/views values from streams endpoint

http://i.imgur.com/ TddTnT3.png Still doing it, fairly annoying.

All of those streams have the same views & followers data? That seems suspiciously like a bug in your application code. Is it open source so I can take a peek? I haven’t seen any indication that our API is reporting terribly wrong numbers on a consistent basis. Occassionally we’ll have blips where …

http://pastebin.com/FiYnXXiA It grabs the API information of the streamer. It decodes the JSON. Will check if viewer count is set, if not, it will set it to 0. Updates the database with the viewer count. There is a bit more code, I just removed a lot of it (same thing, dif values). As you can see…

You currently have a few streams marked as “live” on your site that aren’t live. All of their data matches the current top stream - Riotgames. This, plus the code you shared, makes me think that in some cases $stream_info['name'] is blank, causing your query to our API to return not one stream objec…

Hmmm, not sure how that’s possible. I’ll add some debug stuff tonight and let you know what I find.

Also, here is the full script of that function if you want to look it over. http://pastebin.com/x94HeLSi

Did you see my reply above? Inaccurate followers/views values from streams endpoint - API - Twitch Developer Forums The data in in the growth trend is a snapshot of the channel at midnight PST. Here is a log of what I saw during LIRIKs issue on my post [image] There looks like there was another…

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ManaPot April 21, 2015, 5:11pm 3

https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=[NAME]

(With the streamer’s name at the end)

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